Simple things, the Hodaka.

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motogrady 10/19/2012 5:57am
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JustMX wrote:
Is that a Maico tank on a Hodaka? [img]http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll216/motogrady/mckees%20skypark%20ahrma%202012/DSCF4974.jpg[/img]
Is that a Maico tank on a Hodaka?

If I remember correctly, the same guy owned the yellow one, the Tdog and this one.
Made the tank in his garage.

Good looking tank actually.
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JRMX59 2/1/2014 8:41pm
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jmar wrote:
The Super Rat was my first "big bike" off of a mini.
My first big bike after minis too. Raced the 100cc big wheel class at Dixon and Helvetia in NorCal. Danny Chandler used to lap me in those races on his Steens. Good times.
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Socket946 2/2/2014 3:11pm
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The safety wire job leaves some to be desired.

That said, beautiful bike, ad I believe hodaka is where HONDA motoGP got their new transmission design from with the pre-loaded gear boxes.

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motogrady 2/2/2014 3:26pm
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Socket946 wrote:
The safety wire job leaves some to be desired. That said, beautiful bike, ad I believe hodaka is where HONDA motoGP got their new transmission design...
The safety wire job leaves some to be desired.

That said, beautiful bike, ad I believe hodaka is where HONDA motoGP got their new transmission design from with the pre-loaded gear boxes.
Yeah, but I've always thought, all the gears, engaged all the time, must kill a certain
amount of hp to the sprocket.

That it has evolved to, what do they call it, seamless?, shifting in motogp is something
one would never have believed.


That Hodaka, you could leave the power wide open, no clutch, no blip the throttle,
just slam down on the shifter, if you didn't bend the selector arm, you were good to go.
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mx317 2/2/2014 4:20pm
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I rebuilt several Hodaka transmissions. The "Christmas tree" is what we called the one shaft that had the gears from small to large and they would break with regularity. The outer left hand cover has a mechanism that pulled the a shaft back and forth to engage the ball bearings for each gear. That outer cover gave some trouble after it had some time on it also.
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motogrady 2/2/2014 4:34pm
2/2/2014 4:34pm Edited Date/Time 2/2/2014 4:35pm
Yeah, and the plunger and the groove, it get's a bit worn, and that helps it not stay in gear too.
Most of the problems with that setup are in the sidecase/shifter arm assembly, was for me anyway.

I never ate a gear on that bike, and I rode it into the ground.

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